[Steve_Seattle]

"Too far on a lard ass and it's no longer a hanging, it's a decapitation."

Here in Washington a few years ago, there was an obese prisoner who got a judge to declare his upcoming hanging unconstitutional for that very reason - the guy was so fat that any hanging would have decapitated him. But I think the guy later died in prison of natural causes, a heart attack or kidney failure, I think.